'As You Like It' The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents this comedy at 6 p.m. at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park, 3691 Sarah's Lane. Tickets are $15-$38, free for those 18 and younger with a paying adult. Gates open 90 minutes before each performance; picnickers are welcome. Information: 410-313-8661 or chesapeakeshakespeare.com.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Free Comic Book Day!
Cosmic Comix + Toys in Catonsville and Universal Comics in Arbutus wil be among the comic book stores around the world that will celebrate Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 4.
The two stores will...

The Avengers are mighty, but not enough to beat themselves. The Marvel and Disney sequel earned a staggering $187.7 million in its debut weekend, making it the second biggest U.S. opening of all time according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.
But...

The "Ghostbusters" universe is making room for guys once again.
Sony Pictures has formed Ghostcorps, a new production company to develop movie and TV content and merchandise based on the supernatural comedy franchise, The Times has confirmed, and first...

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Girl is here! The actor has welcomed his second child with wife Susan Downey.
The "Iron Man 3" star and his Team Downey producing partner announced their daughter's Tuesday arrival on social media.
"Girl Joy!! Avri Roel...

Jaaaay! Sofia Vergara is TV's highest-paid actress for the third year in a row.
It's like Emmy-night deja vu all over again...
The heavily accented "Modern Family" star topped Forbes' list of female small-screen performers by bringing home an...

This week, the movie industry took a look in the mirror and wondered: What's wrong? Am I not pretty?
Business over the Fourth of July weekend stumbled nearly 50 percent downward from last year's holiday. Many factors contributed to this. July 4 fell on a...

Robert Downey Jr. is singing the praises of "Iron Women" out there: The "Iron Man 3" actor and his wife, Susan, are having a baby girl.
Downey made the announcement Wednesday on social media, sharing the plaudit along with the news that he'll be...

Compared with many other Hollywood A-listers, Hugh Jackman is an old China hand. The Aussie actor has had a string of hits on the mainland in recent years, including "Real Steel," "Les Miserables" and "Wolverine." And Uncle Wolf — as Jackman is known to...

The upcoming Johnny Depp sci-fi movie "Transcendence" will debut in China on April 18, the same day it's released in the U.S., Chinese company DMG Entertainment said on Monday.
China is also getting an exclusive 3-D version of "Transcendence," the...

The still-hot "Frozen" has joined the billion-dollar box-office club.
Disney's animated fairy tale musical is expected to pass $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales on Sunday, according to studio estimates.
"Frozen," which was released wide in the...

The saga between behemoths Gwyneth Paltrow and Vanity Fair seems to have come to an anticlimactic close.
Vanity Fair Editor Graydon Carter addressed long-running rumors that the magazine would blast the Oscar-winning actress -- an article he said some...

Come Super Bowl Sunday, this year's crop of movie commercials won't be the only ads with connections to the world of movies. At least five spots from car companies — traditionally big players in Super Bowl advertising — will feature Hollywood stars,...

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OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH...

A handful of movies — "The Great Gatsby," "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave" — are poised to dominate the craft categories, while Disney's "Frozen" seems like the front-runner set to win animated feature and original song. Here's how the races currently...

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" burned up the box office Friday, bringing its total U.S. ticket sales to $70.5 million, according to Lionsgate, the film's distributor. That figure for the Jennifer Lawrence-starring sci-fi action movie, which includes...

The saga of Katniss Everdeen will bring the masses into its arena this weekend as "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" arrives in theaters, easily unseating "Thor: The Dark World" for the top box-office spot.
Lionsgate's "Hunger Games" sequel, which will...

Walt Disney Co. has hired a new advertising agency to oversee media planning for its movie studio.
OMD, whose clients include Pepsi and Visa, on Wednesday landed the Disney Studios account, which handles an estimated $800 million a year in advertising...

In a review of the 945 top-grossing films since 1950, researchers for the American Academy of Pediatrics found that movies rated PG-13 have become progressively more violent, with gunplay tripling since 1985. In fact, today’s PG-13 movies are more violent...